CVE-2017-5987

medium

Description

The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving the transfer mode register during multi block transfer.

References

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=6e86d90352adf6cb08295255220295cf23c4286e

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/8

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96263

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421995

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg02776.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-03-20

Updated: 2020-11-10

Type: CWE-835

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM